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On October 6 and 7, 2026 we are organizing a two-day in-person workshop on the Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) at DIW Berlin. In addition to presentations on the study itself, its data structure, sampling design, and weighting strategy, hands-on sessions will offer a practical approach to the data and its potential. The workshop is aimed at researchers of all qualification levels who want to work with ...
21.08.2026| Janina Britzke, Cristóbal Moya
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Refereed essays Web of Science
The Socio-Economic Panel Linked Employer–Employee Survey, Version 2 (SOEP-LEE2), provides linked information on employees, establishments, and self-employed individuals in Germany. An earlier Data Observer article (Matiaske, Wenzel, Torben Dall Schmidt, Christoph Halbmeier, M. Maas, D. Holtmann, C. Schröder, et al. 2024. “SOEP-LEE2: Linking Surveys on Employees to Employers in Germany.” Jahrbücher ...
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Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik
(2026), im Ersch. [online first: 2026-08-10]
| Carsten Schröder, Tamara Böhm, Markus M. Grabka, Alexander Kritikos, Stefan Liebig, Martina Maas, Wenzel Matiaske, Daniel Labarca-Pinto, Isabella Retter, Torben Dall Schmidt, Juliane Zenker
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Weitere referierte Aufsätze
Longitudinal surveys play a central role in social science research and policy advice but increasing demands for timely data pose substantial challenges for managing time, resources, and data quality across survey waves. While the Survey Life Cycle (SLC) provides a well established framework for organizing survey production, it is primarily geared toward single wave studies and offers limited guidance ...
In:
Survey Practice
20 (2026), 10 S.
| Florian Griese, Christian Hunkler, Sabine Zinn
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Refereed essays Web of Science
We study intragenerational wealth rank mobility, investigating three dimensions: (i) wealth mobility over the life cycle, (ii) heterogeneity in mobility among subgroups and wealth components, and (iii) commonalities and differences across divergent country contexts. We use data from Germany (SOEP, N= 12,380 individuals), Norway (administrative register data, N=3,460,602), and Britain (BHPS, N=7,910; ...
In:
Research in Social Stratification and Mobility
(2026),
| Daniel D. Schnitzlein, Philipp M. Lersch, Øyvind N. Wiborg
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Refereed essays Web of Science
This paper explores the effect of COVID-19 infection rates on individuals’ risk preferences using the Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP), a large population-wide ran¬dom sample. Exploiting county-level variation in a difference-in-differences design, we find that risk preferences remain unchanged: the effect is precisely estimated at 2.1% of a standard deviation (95% CI: [−0.4%, +4.6%]), ruling out economically ...
In:
Journal of Risk and Uncertainty
(2026), im Ersch. [online first: 2026-07-11]
| Daniel Graeber, Ulrich Schmidt, Carsten Schröder, Johannes Seebauer
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Refereed essays Web of Science
Respondent-driven sampling (RDS) has been shown to be a promising network sampling strategy. However, it has also been shown to fail in some applications. Basing an RDS procedure on an existing panel study may, therefore, contain the risk of failure and might even alienate non-compliant seeds. This study therefore investigates the hypothetical willingness of general population panel participants to ...
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Journal of Survey Statistics and Methodology
14 (2026), 4, S. 939–954
| Julian B. Axenfeld, Carina Cornesse, Mariel McKone Leonard, Jean-Yves Gerlitz, Julia Witton, Sabine Zinn
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Refereed essays Web of Science
This paper examines the gaps in Germany’s data infrastructure for responding to crises, as revealed during COVID-19, and argues that linking the Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) with administrative health records would strengthen the country’s ability to generate equity-sensitive evidence during future health-related crises. Drawing on evidence from the RKI-SOEP study, we illustrate the added value of combining ...
In:
Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik
(2026), im Ersch.[online first: 2026-07-13]
| Alexander Lepe, Ingo Kolodziej, Sabine Zinn
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Despite the rise in global refugee migration, probability panels surveying refugees remain rare. The German IAB-BAMF-SOEP Survey of Refugees, conducted annually since 2016, provides valuable panel data for research. In 2023, following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, a sample of Ukrainian refugees was added, along with a refreshment sample of refugees from other countries. This paper examines household-, ...
In:
Survey Methods : Insights from the Field
4 (2026), 2, 20 S.
| Johannes Schütt, Elena Sommer
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Refereed essays Web of Science
Objectives Cumulative advantage is a central concept in life course research. Prior research has primarily focused on one outcome domain, overlooking the possibility that cumulative advantage could extend into other domains–what we refer to as diffusion of cumulative advantage. We build on and extend cumulative inequality theory to conceptualize diffusion and apply it to wealth and health, two domains ...
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The Journals of Gerontology. Series B, Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences
81 (2026), 9, gbag115, 11 S.
| Anastasia Lam, Philipp M. Lersch
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This paper introduces the Open Data Format (ODF), a non-proprietary, metadata-enriched, and zipcompressed data format for tabular data alongside statistical software packages. It embeds structured, multilingual metadata directly within the data file, using the well-established DDI-Codebook standard (DDI Alliance, 2014), and enables access to both data and documentation within common statistical environments. ...
In:
IASSIST Quarterly
50 (2026), 2, S. 1-14
| Tom Hartl, Xiaoyao Han, Knut Wenzig